Junction box



J, A. ADELL JUNCTION BOX Filed May 9, 1927 Patented Mar. 2l, 1933 erre JUNCTIN BGX .application filed may e, 192?. Serial tao. lecite.

rhis invention relates to a junction box of a 1Well known type which ordinarily is made of sheet metal. Such a box has a series of knock-outs which are a part of the sheet 5 metal from which the box is made and attached to it by integral tongues and cut through all the rest ot the Way around their periphery. The boxes are sold with all these knock-outs in place.. Those through which a cable is to be passed are knoclred out `When used. hleretoore these knock-outs Were dat circular pieces located in the bottom or ends of the box and it has been ditlicult to get the cables through them and tasten them inside in some instances.

'llie object oi this invention is to provide a form or a knock-out which will be suitable 'for receiving the cable coming into the box an angle. The invention also involves the location of the double `fastening means inside proper relation to these knock-outs so that the cable Will be positively held against the edge o'le each knock-out.

lie'lerence is to be had to the accompanydrawing in which rrrig. l is a side view of a junction box constructed in accordance with this invention with a part of the wall broken away to show one Way in Which the cable can enter and be 'fastened therein;

lig. 2 is a plan of the saine showing one :fastening means in position and with the other removed so that the hnockouts are more n readily visible;

lli 3 is a bottom plan view of the box showing two of the knock-outs removed and the other two in position; and

Fig. d is an end View with the supporting brackets removed.

5@ ot knock-outs 12 are provided, each one ex- 'lhe invention is shown as applied to a j'unctop. rlhe ends are provided With brackets l1' tending into the end wall and the bottom wall or the box. ln other 1Words each hnoclr=out is made in two planes and each lrnoclr-out itself, instead of being dat, is bent at right angles approximately at'its center. llnstearil of being circular, they are oblong in shape and hshaped in side view. When one or these knock-outs is removed it provides an opening at the bottom and end wall extending into both for receiving the cable :i3 which may enter at an angle as shown in Fig. l. When the cable is in this position it has to be distorted with the old form oi" junction box havingr the knock-outs entirely in the bottom or ends. lt is ditcult also to clamp it in position properly inside the box.

With the present device l provide clam ing means in the old forni ot a double borre bar 16 secured in position by a single screvv Il? passing through the bottom ot the box. ln this case l locate these clamps at the ends oir4g the box right over the part the knockout that is located in the bottom thereof. These clamps have one side straight Where they env gage one end of the box and are concave on the bottom to partially tit and securely hold the cable.

From the construction shown in the drawing it will be seen that the cables can be brought into the box in an angular direction and that they are held firmly by the clamps 16 at a point adjacent to the point of entrance. The clamp holds the cable against the edge Wall of the hole Where the knock-out is removed. It is to be understood that the box is provided with the usual attachments inside, vvhich are not shown., but the positions of which are indicated by perforations 18 throu h the bottom of the box.

Alt ough l4 have illustrated and described only a single torni of the invention l am aware of the fact that modifications can be made therein by any person skilled in the art Without departing from the scope of the invention as expressed in the claims. Therefore, l do not Wish to be limited to the details of construction herein disclosed, but what I do claim is:

1. ln asheet metal junction box, the combination with an integral bottom and end 100 walls and a removable L-shapedlmock-out extending about half way into both the enfl Wall and the bottom of the box, of a fas'tenin device for the cable inside the box locate against the end of the box for ipping the cable against the inner eclge o' the hole in the bottom of the box from which the lnioekout is removed.

2. An outlet receptacle comprising, in combination, two adjacent Walls in angular neletionshp with each other, a cable entrance disposed parely one of said ano parti in the other of said walls, a clamp rnemoer Within sai. receptaele, W le entrance saicl clamping member beiig so related that saicl cable entering seid cle through the cable Jnee from ses parallel to either oi? said walls nlnet be bent at tbe region of entry into said'. receptacle.

3.. combinationa an outlet ieeepaacle7 a cable entering sai receptacle saicl receptacle comprising two adjacent Walls in angular relationship with each other, said Walls hav ing a cableentrance disposed partly in one of saicl Walls endl partly in the other of said Walls, and a clamping member Within said receptacle, said cable entrance and said clamping member being so related that seid cable entering said receptacle through said cable entrance from positions parallel to either of said walls must be bent at the region of entry into saiil receptacle,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto afxed my signature.

JOHN A. ADELL. 

